I'm working on a new website. Well, actually, it looks nearly the same in colors and design. What is different is what's under the hood. I'm using a Content Management System called Drupal to organize it a little better and add more functionality.A year or so ago I discovered Drupal when I was researching Content Management Systems (CMS) for my job at Texas State University. I have known things like Drupal existed, but hadn't gotten my hands on it yet.
Drupal is free and takes a little getting used to. It's primarily held together with PHP and CSS. So if you know both of those, you'll be fine. It's fairly easy to learn to use, but to manipulate the structure of Drupal, you'll need to really dig into web programming a little.
I'm currently re-doing several of the sites I've managed in Drupal. I've also started on a website for my girl friend using Drupal so that she can post stories and articles she is writing online without having to go through anyone else to do it. She actually currently does that at her journalist job.
There will be several additions to the site. One will be a more dynamic layout for the site that I have done. I'm really not pleased with that layout and have never had time to work on it much, so I'll redo that. The other is THIS blog will be hosted entirely on my server. I'm writing some of the blog code myself and some of it is housed in Drupal.
One last addition that I want to mention is the embedding of Flickr photos on the bottom of my homepage. I've "rigged" my blackberry to send all the photos I take to Flickr. Then my website will randomly choose 6 pictures to post at the bottom under my "Recent Mobile Pics" heading. I will likely change that because not all of the pictures will be recent. So by the time I launch the site, it will likely just say Mobile Pics.
Anyway....
There is it. That's it, and that's all.
